Desperate and Fearful

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Desperate

Desperate adjective - Feeling or showing no hope.
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Fearful is an antonym for desperate in reckless topic.
Nearby Words: desperately, desperation

Fearful

Fearful adjective - Lacking courage; ignobly timid and faint-hearted.
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Desperate is an antonym for fearful.
Nearby Words: fear, fearless, fearsome, fearfully, fearlessly
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  • When Flemeth leads Kieren into the Fade, Morrigan is more fearful and desperate than at any other point in the series, but that doesn't stop her from trying to defend herself and her son, or calling her mother out on her horrible parenting and body-snatching tendencies.
    Source: Calling the Old Man Out
  • No Party Like a Donner Party Fearful that the desperate survivors would slow them down, the lifeboat passengers soon cut the tow ropes and set the raft adrift in the open ocean.
    Source: No Party Like a Donner Party
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